Improvement in instruments for driving and extracting faucets, bungs



A. & T. McKENNA.

INSTRUMENT FOR DRI G AND EXTRACTING FAUCETS,

G'S, &c.

No.173,ZZ8. I Patented Feb. 8,1876;

NJ'EI'ERS, PNOWUTHOGRAPHER, WASHXNGTON. 1Cv

' UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrca.

ALEXANDER MGKENNA AND THOMAS MGKENNA, OF PITTSBURG, TA.

IMPROVEMENT lN INSTRUMENTS FOR D'RIVING'A'ND EXTRACTING FAUCETS,BUNGSlXtc'. v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,228, dated February8, 1876; application filed 1 September 20, 1875.

the following description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, wherein Figure 1 represents a perspective view' of our tool orimplement used for driving and extracting faucets or bungs; Fig. 2, aside elevation of the same as j applied to a faucet, and in the act ofwithdrawing it from a cask; Fig. 3, a front view of a metallic ringdesigned to be placed around the tail of a faucet preparatory to drivingthe same in a cask or barrel.

Theobject of our invention isto provide a ready means of driving faucetsinto casks, and also withdrawing the same when necessary, in-a quick,simple, and easy manner. a

For this purpose we construct an implement consisting of a woodenmallet, provided with the usual handle A, having'at its end most remotefrom the head B a forked metallic claw, c, the extremities of which areeach formed with a rounding projection or knob, d, and just back of theclaw, toward the handle, with a heel, fi'supporting a roller, e, soarranged and pivoted thereto in proper bearings asto act as a movableanti-frictioufiflcrum.

To use our improved-fimplement, a metallic ring, h, is to be firstplaced around and on the tapering tail J of the faucet K, andpreparatory to driving it into acask, L, as shown in Fig. 2, and whichdriving may be effected by v 'Witnesse's:

the wooden head of the mallet. -When once driven tightly in, should itbecome necessary to withdraw it, the fork or claw c of the implement isto be placed astride the tail J 'just' mg ring h, when the roller e inthe heel f, constituting the fulcrum,will bear upon the head of the caskin such a manner as that, on pressure being applied to the handle orh'eadof the mallet in the direction of the cask, thefaucet will be drawnstraight out, and released from.

the orifice in which it was previously driven.

Although the ring it in thiscase is made so as to be detached, which,perhaps, is prefera- I ble, as it then may be used on several kinds offaucets, as well as bungs, yet we propose in some instances to form itsolidly and in one piece with the tail of the faucet; but, howeverconstructed, shaped, or applied, thespirit of our invention remains thesame.

We claim 1. The forked claw 0, provided withround- .ing projections orknobs d d, in combination with the heel f and roller 6, as and for thepurposes set forth.

2. The forked claw c,'in combination with the heel f and roller e, asand for the purposes set forth.

3. As a means of extracting faucets from casks or barrels, theherein-described forked tool or implement, in combination with the ringaround the tail of the faucet,-substantially in the manner shown and setforth.

ALEX. MGKENNA. THOMAS MGKENNA.

J OSIAH' W. ELLs, ROBERT S. SILL.

